Tuesday Longwood's fourth-year head coach unveiled a daunting 2021-22 non-conference schedule featuring Longwood's first-ever multi-team event of the Division I era in Willett Hall and showdowns against multiple NCAA Tournament teams and reigning conference champions. The 14-game slate will pit the Lancers against teams from nine difference conferences, including Big Ten stalwart Iowa, reigning Big East champion Georgetown, reigning Southland champion Abilene Christian, Conference USA runner-up Old Dominion, and MEAC runner-up Morgan State.
In total, Longwood's 11 Division I non-conference foes posted a 122-96 record a year ago with both Iowa and Abilene Christian topping the 20-win plateau, and Abilene Christian, Georgetown, Morgan State and Old Dominion all reaching their conference championship game. Armed with one of the nation's top returning point guards and three-point shooters in Jordan Bohannon, the Hawkeyes went 14-2 in Carver-Hawkeye Arena last season and will put a four-game home win streak on the line against the Lancers in the season opener.
Those two games precede the 2021 Lancer Invitational, which will see Longwood face American, UMBC and Western Carolina on consecutive days in Willett Hall. Along with Longwood's games, fans can also get a glimpse at the Lancers' competition when Western Carolina faces UMBC on Nov. 19 and American faces Western Carolina on Nov. 20.
After that five-game home gauntlet, Longwood hits the road for a pair of top-tier post-Thanksgiving battles, starting with a trip to Norfolk to face Old Dominion on Nov. 26 and following with trek to Washington, D.C., where they will face reigning Big East champion and Patrick Ewing-coached Georgetown on Nov. 30.
Those final three non-conference games send Longwood to St. Francis-Brooklyn, Abilene Christian and Maryland Eastern Shore.
source: https://longwoodlancers.com/news/2021/9/1/mens-basketball-unveils-daunting-non-conference-schedule.aspx
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